All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Every text assumes a reader.

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.